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OpenRouter offers free models with 1M token context windows

OpenRouter's catalog now features five free text models capable of processing one million tokens or more of context. These models, including Nemotron 3 Ultra and thinkingmachines/Inkling, offer a significant context window for tasks like code analysis. However, their usage is limited by low request rates per minute and day, making them suitable for occasional large-scale tasks rather than continuous user-facing applications. Paid models with similar context capabilities are also available on the platform. AI

IMPACT Provides access to large-context models for free, enabling new use cases for code analysis and summarization.

RANK_REASON The item describes a feature of a platform that provides access to AI models, rather than a release from a frontier lab.

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OpenRouter offers free models with 1M token context windows

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · toolfreebie ·

    Five of OpenRouter's free models take a million tokens of context

    <p>I went looking for the cheapest way to throw a large codebase at a model and found this in OpenRouter's public catalog — no key needed to check:<br /> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight shell"><code>curl <span class="nt">-s</span> https://open…